Re: Argument passing to swarm (equal sign puzzle)

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "PJ" == Paul E Johnson <address@hidden> writes:

PJ> This makes me think that the command line ought to be ./heatbugs
PJ> -n=137 However, this does not work, because the argument
PJ> processing thinks that the parameter string is "=137" and the atoi
PJ> function does not work on it (because of the equal sign being
PJ> treated as part of the parameter). It seems to me this is may be a
PJ> general problem,or at least an ambiguity in the docs distributed
PJ> for Arguments.

It's conventional that in GNU programs the long-argument parsing
accepts either the single-argument "key=value" or one or two-argument key/value
syntax, but the short-argument syntax only accepts the latter.

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